Final Standings

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Please Join me in congratulating the team of:

	Pavel Ouvarov  and  Frederic van der Plancke

	for "Yalta" ... winner of the POWERSAW POTM!

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Links for your pleasure:

The Consolation Prizes

Summary of All Entries as Supplied by Authors

Pointers to The Code of Selected Entries

The solutions of the winning entry

Short version of the problem.

Long version of the problem.

Back to the list of problems.

Here's the results of the final run:

There were three final problems as follows (details will go to those
 who submitted programs).  Yalta had the clearly best score on the
first two, and tied for the best score on the third.  Thanks to all
who participated ... the website will be updated this week and the
participants will receive some more details via email.
Hope to hear from everyone when the next POTM begins!
=Fred

1)  NAME="sliver"   TESTARGS="0 1 1 99"	      (just a tiny sliver)
2)  NAME="midway"   TESTARGS="1 80 98 20"     (almost through the middle)	
3)  NAME="950"      TESTARGS="62 100 100 50"  (area = 950 units)	

           ENTRY   SCORE (sliv/midw/ 950) PIECES TIME  NAME
    ---------------- ----  ---- ---- ----  ----- ------ -------------------
             Yalta   305 ( 275/   7/  23)   86 1707.1 P.Ouvarov F.vanderPlancke
            Mikado   318 ( 287/   8/  23)   82  730.73 K.VanBael W.Fransen
            JigSaw   323 ( 287/  12/  24)   84    8.67 Andrew Gauld
         Glamdring   349 ( 286/  13/  50)   65 1384.41 Michael Strauch
         SawOMatic   573 ( 441/  31/ 101)   50 1773.26 Dan Gehlhaar
        Bobbittize   583 ( 287/  30/ 266)   87 1708.75 Randy Saint
          Messer37   683 ( 285/ 135/ 263)  120 1789.25 Paul Grayson
          iron_saw   756 ( 712/  15/  29)   50 1797.08 Ionel Santa
    Texas_Chainsaw   824 ( 287/ 268/ 269)  127 1788.00 Davor Slamnig
        LumberJack   841 ( 571/ 119/ 151)   54  123.00 David Mishelashvili
        LatticeSaw   846 ( 285/ 286/ 275)  128     .03 Franz Mauch
      Black+Decker   853 ( 287/ 288/ 278)  128     .03 Vasudev Seeram
          SawItOut   853 ( 287/ 288/ 278)  128     .03 Denis Konovalchik
              bzzz   853 ( 287/ 288/ 278)  128     .03 Bob Ashenfelter
              vidi   853 ( 287/ 288/ 278)  128     .17 Dan Schmidt
            griddo   853 ( 287/ 288/ 278)  128 1797.00 P.Maragakis A.Danalis
           packpou   854 ( 287/ 288/ 279)  128     .03 Vitaliy Pavlyuk
          Saw_Dust   857 ( 287/ 288/ 282)  128     .03 Rajgopal Nayak
      Icame_Isawed   860 ( 287/ 285/ 288)  129     .85 Ted Alper
            planit   976 ( 857/  45/  74)   35     .04 David Lynch
 GettinJigsawWitIt  1036 ( 462/ 261/ 313)   65 1771.74 Donald Pratt
      SocialistSaw  1073 ( 989/  34/  50)   37     .03 Nikhil Vajramushti
          paparaki  1185 ( 645/ 288/ 252)   55 1771.30 P.Tsantoulis V.Vasaitis
        BoredBoard  1191 ( 398/ 399/ 394)  129     .02 Hal Burch
         renaisSAW  1357 ( 433/ 419/ 505)  138  690.13 Ranjeet Bhatia
       Saw_It_Easy  1504 ( 499/ 538/ 467)   79     .89 Aivars Zogla
       PizzaSlicer  1718 ( 613/ 488/ 617)  145 1776.90 Kroum Savadjiev
             Image  2343 (1732/  61/ 550)   25     .03 Amit Singh
         Rusty_saw  2853 ( 907/1018/ 928)  151     .11 Ossama Abdel-Hamid
         first_cut  3127 ( 995/1109/1023)   50    2.50 Tirthankar Saha
          puddytat  3999 (1201/1192/1606)  139    3.42 Mr. POTM-Master
15MenOnTheDMsChest  6881 ( 949/3655/2277)   30     .17 Boris Bulayev
           HackSaw 10324 (9999/  50/ 275)  ***   84.86 Paul Banta
              cSaw 10330 ( 286/9999/  45)  ***  563.12 Doug Jones
Who_was_that_woman 10567 ( 335/9999/ 233)  *** 1785.16 Kevin Williams
          slycndyc 10875 ( 575/9999/ 301)  ***  361.74 David Harris
             singh 13595 (9999/3359/ 237)  ***   23.12 Shailender Singh
   No_Lost_Fingers 18059 (9899/  61/8099)    6     .04 Ray Stephenson
   WoodyWoodCutter 20098 (9999/ 100/9999)  *** 1441.18 Lourenco Arnasalon
        MadHackSaw 20434 (9899/ 536/9999)  *** 4140.77 Peter Szkiela
            my_day 23989 (9930/5030/9029)  180     .31 Shawn Smith
           Dice_It 24898 (4900/9999/9999)  ***     .05 Mike Maxim
            cut-em 29997 (9999/9999/9999)  ***    8.49 Grant Stevens

	*** Scores of 9999 indicate a problem of some sort that
		prevented the output of a valid answer.

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